Articles by Michael Croley

April 16th, 2025

Dress Smart

An invitation to play the Dunhill Links Championship as an amateur is a knee-knocking affair. Sure, players have the anxiety of playing with the pros and in front of crowds, but they also have the weather, which can be counted on to wreak as much havoc, if not more, than any amateur player’s cold-topped 3-wood Read more…

September 5th, 2024

Holy coach: How did a minister raise four PGA Tour winners from one high school?

The numbers get you close to a story but are too indifferent to describe a life. From 1997 to 2008, King Oehmig might have been the most successful high school golf coach in America. At his alma mater, Baylor School, a private boarding and day school in Chattanooga, Tenn., Oehmig’s teams won 21 state championships. Read more…

June 7th, 2024

Why I spread my brother’s ashes at Pinehurst No. 2

Golf was a strange game for my brother to play. It was not a typical sport for athletes in our hometown. Golf was a country club game, and we were not country club kids. Both our parents had grown up in a sort of desperate poverty that I think, to them, made joining the country Read more…

October 24th, 2023

Nolan Krentz: Driven

Nolan Krentz played more thank 18,000 holes last year. Nearly all were on his local nine-hole course. It wasn’t enough. We can’t figure out what makes him so… driven.

April 14th, 2023

‘A 100 years ago, I had no chance.’ A glimpse of Pinehurst’s 10th course and the woman shaping it

As a golf-course shaper, Angela Moser says her ability to blend natural landscapes with formed ones has been her gift.